Light is the Left Hand of the Darkness
Its Summer Solstice, 2020. I always find it unusual that in June, when are just beginning to discover the warmth and energy of the summer, our earth begins its shift towards the winter sun. I wonder about the lightness and the darkness, about the solstice…
Holding your Golden Threads
I began creating my ‘holding your golden threads’ piece in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic. Life as we know it changed and I, like many, had to find and hold on to their resources to weather the storm. As I took the incredibly…
Sing Your Own Song
Sing your own Song I was delighted to be asked to exhibit at the MAKE Symposium 2020 in Cork, Ireland. It was a collaborative project between Crawford College of Art and Design and the Theatre Department of UCC, with a handful of makers (me included)…
Accepting the Unwanted
Accepting the Unwanted I started this piece when I was on the move and wasn’t even sure why. I had been travelling a bit over a few weeks and was feeling a little ungrounded. Part of me, maybe due to it being late Autumn, wanted…
Being True to Yourself
Being True to Yourself How can I be true to myself and maintain my sense of self and still be in a relationship with the other. And when I say the ‘other’, I mean parent, older children, wider family, friends or partner! This is my…
Finding Stillness through the Trees
Finding Stillness through the Trees This piece of art, entitled ‘Finding Stillness through the Trees’, reflects my own search for stillness and calm in my day to day life. One of my ways… is walking in the woodlands and amongst the trees. As I…
Loss: A journey through Grief
A Journey Through Grief Over the month of August, I embarked on what I thought was a simple task. Having found a bag of old embroidery threads in my fathers family home, I decided to weave a piece that incorporate these threads and allow me…
Exploring Touch as a Means of Self Expression
I was invited to join the Touch art project in 2019, a collaborative exploration honouring the work of Anni Albers, one of the great female artists of the 20th century. The below explanation charts my voyage over the months leading up to the exhibition and…
Salmon and Vegetable One Pot Wonder
Salmon and Vegetable One Pot Wonder is a great dish that takes about 20 mins. Perfect if you come home from work or school and you want to eat quick without loads of washing up! PrintSalmon and Vegetable One Pot Wonder Ingredients1 onion - finely…
Carrageen Moss Dessert with Pear and Ginger
This is a lovely winter dessert with lovely warming pear and ginger as a base. Carrageen moss is great for any throat infections or sore throats. Serves 6 PrintCarrageen Moss Dessert with Pear and Ginger Ingredients2 large chopped pears 1/2 inch ginger root - grated…
Orange and Horseradish dressing
Orange and Horseradish Salad Dressing This dressing has a lovely kick and goes great with root vegetable salads. I make my dressing to last a couple of days and store them in little glass containers (I use old dried herb containers!). I often wait till…
Separation Art Project
The “Separation” art project took place over three months while I was on Erasmus in Cardiff. It tracks my both my emotional journey and art process over the month I was separated from my home: Over the last few weeks, since my arrival here in…
Making as Healing
The main drive in all the work that I do is unravelling what wellbeing means on the personal level. We are informed, educated, legislated to look after our health, but what does that mean personally. Here I explore how the creative process can tap into…
Art dealing with Dementia
Art dealing with Dementia “Soon, I will become unknown, to him“ The below charts a college project I carried out while on Erasmus in Cardiff. The title of the project was called ‘jcejbO:Object’ which involved taking a piece of art, my piece ‘Soon, I will…
Lucy tailored the coaching sessions to my individual style of understanding and learning and the outcome were solutions that were specific to me!
I’d been going through a period of fatigue, digestive problems and various muscle and joint pains. I wanted to see what I could do to turn things around through nutrition and lifestyle change and knew Lucy was the person to help me. Over the time…
It is well worth the journey with Lucy guiding you to a better healthier you
“I signed up for Lucy’s course because I needed someone to help me work through and review my attitude to food and its impact on my emotional wellbeing. Lucy was fantastic at helping me to understand why I was an emotional eater and how to…
Trust Yourself
Learning to trust your decision making abilities. Its a 5 letter word. And in many ways, its just any other word. And like any other word, it can be simply spoken, with little or no meaning or it can be spoken with heart felt truth, touching…
Positive Self Talk
Positive self talk starts with compassion. I recently had a conversation about conscious conversations. These conscious conversations took the shape of a dialogue. The dialogue I happened to talk about with my client was the one she had with herself when deciding what she was going to eat.…
Feel good you
Feel good you vs being good you “Being good is hard” Its a line from a recent conversation that got me thinking. Most people, it appears, are busy trying to be good. It made me think about what drives so much of the population around the…
Making Changes for Life
Making changes from the right place makes it last a lifetime. There are two types of change. Well, actually there are probably heaps more. But for the sake of my sanity and brevity, I’m going to say there are two. And being at the other side…